Posted on 05/30/2013 12:22:00 PM PDT by Deek
TIGHAR is able to share details of our search for a conclusive answer to the Earhart mystery thanks to the international agreement signed in Washington, DC on March 20, 2012. The Republic of Kiribati, the sovereign nation of which Nikumaroro is a part, has granted TIGHAR the exclusive right to conduct research, search, and recovery operations related to the Earhart disappearance within the national borders of Kiribati. No one is authorized to undertake Earhart related search, recovery of artifacts or research within the boundaries of Kiribati (including Nikumaroro) without authorization from both the government of Kiribati and TIGHAR.
(Excerpt) Read more at tighar.org ...
What difference does it make?
Sounds like someone is asking for money.
They have found something, they are a long way from proving it’s Earhart’s plane.
To those without a sense of curiosity or history, it makes no difference.
Who? Kiribati, you might like to know, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, the Gilbert chain, has about 100,000 permanent residents, and is a member of the United Nations with a vote equal to that of the United States.
I’m sort of waiting for a Nigerian 800#..
I didn’t know she was driving a Buick when missing.
Links not responding. Maybe they’re swamped?
The Republic of Kiribati, the sovereign nation of which Nikumaroro is a part, ....This is joke, right? Where is Kirackatchee and which part of Nigunomoreomar and what THF nation are they?
I sure appreciate your contacting me. My great grandfather, Samuelly Heney, was one of the principal investigators into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the famed woman aviator whose plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Unlike other investigators, Samuelly was convinced that she overshot all her targets and ended up marooned on an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
In a bizarre twist of fate, his own plane crashlanded on Sri Lanka in the early 1940s, and while he survived, he was unable to repair his plane. He spent several years in a suburb of Colombo before meeting a young adventurer named Pari McKuster. Samuelly and Pari ended up buying a boat and sailed eastward. They ended up in modern day Burma, where they helped squash a rebellion by the Ewoks, a native people who lived in the interior of the country. As a result, the ruler of Burma, Vut KiRiprip, the so-called “Cardinal King” sent them on a special mission to Jakarta, where he was trying to find the kidnapped prince of Singapore. Samuelly went on alone, as Pari had become an invertebrate (you know, confined to a wheelchair). Although he scoured the area, Samuelly never found the prince, who, it was assumed, died of polio. Disenchanted, he eventually moved back to Nebraska, where he took a job as the manager of one of the first McDonalds franchises in the Great Plains. There, he met a Sumatran woman, and they relocated.
But back to your client and your situation. It is a sorry, sorry situation and heart-breaking (no pun intended). Were you close with him or her? That must be tough on you, as well. My condolences. I know it has been six whole years since the tragic disaster in Indonesia, but the pain never fully subsides, you know?
If I am the lone survivor, and the money you speak of would rightfully be mine, please let me know how we should proceed in this matter. Although the whole idea of the inheritance is new to me, I think it might be appropriate to take some portion of the money and put it toward a memorial to my distant relative and all the other victims of the tsunami, those who died, those who didn’t die but died later, those who still might die, and those of us who are the living ones who have memory of things and so forth and such. I’d appreciate your thoughts on that, too.
I look forward to your sincere and most speedy reply,
Paul
The subject came up last year. Their press release from then had the old B/W pictures of what looked like a piece of landing gear and a few other odds and ends on the beach.
That’s what they were basing last years search on.
Read further:
“$39,000,000 has been secured for this most inevitable project, with funds to be distributed from Sir Patashwerwati, Financial Directior of the Republic of Kiribati. It has come to our Attention Mr. Cowboy Bob through mutual relations that you can provide aid in transfer of funds to TIGHAR. Please advise which Bank Account of your choosing, and a 20% retainer fee will be credited to your account.”
and is a member of the United Nations with a vote equal to that of the United States.....Why? They gonna bomb us or cut off tourist trade?
The only way to be absolutely sure that the anomaly is indeed Amelia's plane is by sending another expedition to the island, but that will depend upon the ability of TIGHAR, a nonprofit institute that relies upon sponsorships and contributions from the public, to raise the needed funding.
"We currently project that it will take nearly $3,000,000 to put together an expedition that can do what needs to be done. It's a lot of money, but it's a small price to pay for finding Amelia," Gillespie said.
The found a sonar image which may or may not be the wreckage of the Electra. This is the same group which has in the past claimed to have found evidence of Earhart only to later back track. I’ll wait for a corpse or actual airplane parts
This is a top-priority message from TIGHAR.
I represent the financial secretary of The Republic of Kiribati, a sovereign nation and member of the United Nations. My name is Nikumaroro and I am in possession of treasury notes equivalent to 500 million US dollars. These funds were found on Emelia Earhart’s crashed aeroplane.
In exchange for my passage and sponsorship to the United States, I am willing to evenly divide these funds with you.
Please send me your personal bank information (account and routing numbers, please) so that I might deposit the funds prior to arriving in the US. You will be designated as my immigration sponsor.
All this information is strictly above-board as you can see by my inclusion of my close personal friend and US Secretary of State, Mr. Jon Cary in the distribution list of this email. Accordingly, I will request you furnish the “Jon Cary for President” campaign fund an appropriate contribution.
Please replay to my missive at your convenience.
Your sincreely,
Nikumaroro
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